General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
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The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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